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In the coming week, the prime ministers will again discuss the lockdown with Chancellor Merkel.
One way out of the current state could be rapid tests.
From March 8th this should be possible for everyone.
But here too there are problems, as was clear from Maybrit Illner.
The SPD politician Karl Lauterbach fears that many tests are of poor quality.
He increasingly relies on vaccinating older people.
But that would take at least another six weeks.
The science journalist Harald Lesch also pleads for an extension of the lockdown - in contrast to the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer.
The Green politician wants openings and relies on his own test strategy.
The Weimar official Isabelle Oberbeck wants to inoculate the vaccine from AstraZeneca in the vaccination centers from Sunday.
She cannot understand any doubts about the vaccine.
The deputy chairwoman of the ethics council, Susanne Schreiber, sees no demand for the vaccine.
It is more difficult that those willing to vaccinate cannot get to him.
The lockdown argument of the evening
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"We can no longer afford to allow ourselves," says Palmer.
Many companies could no longer.
If openings only come in the summer, the inner cities would be “half dead”, fears the Green politician.
“We shouldn't agree to more and more lockdown extensions out of fear of this mutant,” says the local politician.
Lauterbach, on the other hand, calls for an extension of six to eight weeks.
Until then, the group of 70 to 80 year olds can also be vaccinated.
On the one hand, relaxation would be required, on the other hand, mutations would spread.
“Two trains are racing towards each other,” says Lauterbach.
Lesch is also nearing the end of the lockdown.
“You shouldn't do that under any circumstances,” says the physicist.
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Palmer had repeatedly attracted attention in Tübingen through special ways.
The Green politician also has his own strategy for testing.
"It is the third week in which we test in all daycare centers and all schools," reports Palmer.
In over 10,000 tests, not a single one was positive.
Rapid tests were used that can be carried out yourself.
"When it became clear that they were approved for third-party use, I said: We're not waiting for the permit to drill our nose," says Palmer and suggests the same concept for inner cities.
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Those who tested negative could go to the museum or go shopping for six hours without worrying.
"Many of these tests are not of the quality," warns Lauterbach.
You also have to ensure that those who have tested positive are also reported to the health department.
Palmer's patience breaks: "But these are all solvable problems, not always just raising concerns."
The evening's demand for pragmatism
As is well known, Palmer cannot be blamed for a lack of pragmatism.
Lesch sees it differently with other politicians.
“Pragmatism is something that gives a system a certain resilience,” says the science journalist.
Lesch criticizes the long approval period for rapid tests in Germany.
“We stand in our own way,” says the physicist.
Rapid tests have been approved in Great Britain since August last year.
Palmer sees a problem in security thinking.
"In the pandemic, speed is more important than thoroughness," says the Green politician.
Lauterbach of all people shows how pragmatism can be combined with German bureaucracy.
If the second vaccination were to be postponed within the officially approved period, “in the best case 14,000 people, in the less favorable case 8,000 people could be saved”, the member of the Bundestag calculates.
The first vaccination reduces deaths and serious illnesses.
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The medical officer Oberbeck “cannot really understand” the doubts about the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Primary school teachers and educators in Weimar are to be vaccinated with it from Sunday.
Lesch sees the rejection as a "hysterical reaction from the public".
It is better to be vaccinated than not to be vaccinated.
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Palmer sees a mistake in the approval of the substance only for under 65-year-olds.
“We have once again been overly cautious,” criticized the mayor, “that is a serious strategic mistake that costs life.” Lauterbach also sees this as “a big mistake”.
The European approval authority also approved the vaccine for older people, but Germany did not.
Data from England would show that the vaccine “works excellently” in older people.
He too would take the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Deputy Ethics Council Chairwoman Schreiber also has no sympathy for people who refuse a vaccination: "Anyone who declines a vaccination offer at the moment will probably have to wait in line again first."